Faces of war

Members of the Military Council of the Voronezh Front Lieutenant General S. Ivanov (right) and N. Khrushchev during a conversation in the courtyard of the front headquarters

Army Commander Lieutenant General V. Kolpakchi and Major General K. Abramov

Commander-in-Chief of the Voronezh Front N. Vatutin and Member of the Military Council of the Voronezh Front N. Khrushchev at an observation post near Belgor

Female collective farmers of the Kanashikhinskiy village dig trenches along the slope on the Red Army defense line in the Oryol-Kursk Region

Local residents of one of the villages in the Oryol-Kursk Region near the wreckage of the German Focke-Wulf plane shot down in an air battle

Unit of sailors on the street of Sevastopol

Commander-in-Chief of the Maritime Army Major General I. Petrov at the observation post

Member of the Military Council of the Black Sea Fleet N. Kulakov monitoring the enemy's position on the front line of defense

Commander-in-Chief of the Maritime Army Major General I. Petrov (3rd right), Member of the Military Council P. Kuznetsov (2nd right), Commander of the 95th Rifle Division Major General V. Vorobyov (right) on the defense line of Sevastopol

Red Army Commanders: I. Petrov, Chukhnov, Grushevoy etc. in the last days of the city's defense

Sailor of the Soviet Navy at the observation post

Commander of the anti-aircraft machine gun squad monitors the Malakhov mound

Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force N. Ostryakov (left), Military Commissar of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force Brigade Commissar N. Kuzenko and chief of flight inspection Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant Colonel N. Naumov (right) on the airfield at the plane

Captain I. Saprykin (left) sets a combat task to a fighter wing at the Kherson Lighthouse airfield

Member of Stakhanov movement, mortar assembler A. Kokosha and Manager of the assembling department S. Rofe in the shop of a special plant in one of the tunnels